Run results for: weweewdwr41

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 126

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
C1	250.5 Ops/sec
C2	240.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function createExample() {
  var el = document.createElement('div');
  el.className = 'class-1 class-2 class-3';
  el.id = 'example';
  el.textContent = 'Test';
  return el;
}

Tests:

C1
var scope = { ex: createExample() } var i = 10000; while (i--) { var e = scope.ex.cloneNode(true); }
C2
var scope = { ex: createExample() } scope.Clone = Node.prototype.cloneNode.bind(scope.ex); var i = 10000; while (i--) { var e = scope.Clone(true); }

Run results for: weweewdwr41

Compare cloning element vs creating a new one

C1

C2